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Thu, 8 May 2014 | By shaunalynn | Views [343] | Scholarship Entry
The Mombasa-Malindi road embodies the pulse of Swahili culture. The smell of fried fish from roadside stalls mixes with the salty sea breeze. Men hop in and out of colored matatus, shouting over loud music while shoving nonchalant passengers into their ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By mtangem | Views [279] | Scholarship Entry
My advice while on a journey: be a traveler, not a tourist. The difference? Well, tourists already know what they want to see and may overlook the inherent beauty in sights unplanned for. Travelers however, have no fixed plan on what to see; their eyes ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By roamingrose | Views [348] | Scholarship Entry
My lion-king Swahili couldn’t understand what she was screaming, but her words, heavy with hatred, and the wildly swinging machete she wielded needed no translation. This had started with metal – the tossing of a coin – and I hoped it wasn’t going to ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By theloner | Views [397] | Scholarship Entry
The rising sun shields its nakedness behind a patch of blue clouds now tinged orange in the far distant east. We are huddled together; six men with cow dung smeared on our faces, decked in fatigues sown with leaves by the local women, moving as a single ... Read more >
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Mon, 5 May 2014 | By theplethoraofwonder | Views [313] | Scholarship Entry
Some sights are so captivating to the eyes,really catching.One of these sights is Menengai crater found in Nakuru Kenya.I’ll never forget that fateful day that I got a chance of going to the crater.The day was on a weekend and one of my friend was celebrating ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Apr 2014 | By evacassiemac | Views [373] | Scholarship Entry
‘How many people live here?’ I ask Piers as he leads me further up the rise through growing piles of rubbish. It’s mostly made of used plastic bags because that’s what you do with plastic bags in Kibera when you finish with them. Whether they are your ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Apr 2014 | By olliegoldson | Views [544]
Kenya :)
Nothing beats being back in the homeland. Don’t get me wrong, my travels have been out of this world amazing and the places I have been to have been breathtaking but to be back on home soil and where everything is so familiar ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Apr 2014 | By olliegoldson | Views [533]
I love Nairobi. For a few days, its a great place to hang around but for five days its a little too much for me. Don’t get me wrong, I have had a great time and caught up with many old friends and met some new ones along the way too but I am done.... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Apr 2014 | By olliegoldson | Views [1331]
All packed and ready to go. Yup. Never thought it would happen but I can safely say I am finally done. My life for the next few months has fitted in to a 70 litre backpack as my main bag and a small 35 litre backpack for the stuff I need during the day.... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Apr 2014 | By yvonnekawira | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry
I will never forget the day I went to Hells Kitchen in Malindi Kenya. Hell's Kitchen does not have an evil mischievous sprite prowling over a 450° F oven armed with a recipe, oh and a secret ingredient,No. it is actually a tranquil site with old colorful ... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By mysterytravel | Photo Gallery
these are some of the photos iv taken in my line of duty which always inspires me to travel far and wide
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By janelles | Views [455] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
I went to Kenya because of love. Not my love, mind you-- someone else's. But that love was so strong and beautiful that not even the bitter person I was becoming could ignore it. I was growing cynical. I'd loved someone who didn't love me back. I'd poured ... Read more >
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Wed, 23 Apr 2014 | By mysterytravel | Views [306] | Scholarship Entry
'The fearful girl is out of school'villager's said on my last high school day.It never augured well with me as much as it was written all over me.i frantically searched for ways to prove them wrong,i longed to go go far away. An opportunity came knocking ... Read more >
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Wed, 23 Apr 2014 | By janejournies | Views [258] | Scholarship Entry
The first time I boarded a commuter train in my own country I was more than ecstatic. Even though I had seen the train zoom by our estate every morning and evening since I was three, the actual act of getting on that train and chugging along was always ... Read more >
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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 | By citytravels | Views [287] | Scholarship Entry
It’s Tuesday morning. We are all assembled at the parking lot ready to leave for Naivasha where we will be spending days two and three of the Social Innovation Safari. I am in a van with a fellow Kenyan, two Ugandans and the Iraqi who has by now become ... Read more >
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